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I am building a new PC soon and I need some help deciding between CPU options. I will be gaming and recording at the same time (perhaps a facecam as well and streaming), video editing and rendering. I definitely am thinking of going with Intel and I have narrowed down the options to the i7 4790k, the i7 5930k and the i7 5960x. I know that x99 will have added costs due to mobos/DDR4 as well. Please give justification to your answers please and thanks so much!

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5820k, it's a happy median between the 4790k and 5930k.

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4790K or 5820K.

With the 5820K you will of course need DDR4, but it is honestly not that much more expensive. You will also have 6 cores and HT.

4790K will do great too and you can go for DDR3, but 'only' 4 cores and 8 threads

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Depending on your budget, 4790k or 5820k. If you can afford the X99 platform then go with it. The Z97 platform maybe cheaper but it's no slouch either. It can keep pace in gaming but falls behind with editing/rendering.

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My only worry is that I will run out of cores/threads if I am gaming/recording gameplay and facecam/streaming at the same time. Will this be a problem? Also, I am hoping to SLI Titan Xs or 980 Tis, will the reduced PCIE lanes on the 4790k/5820k hinder performance?

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Isn't the only difference between the 5820k and the 5930k the number PCIe lanes? The 5960X has a step up in the number of cores, and is going to be the best that's not a Xeon, if you have the money to throw at it.

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My only worry is that I will run out of cores/threads if I am gaming/recording gameplay and facecam/streaming at the same time. Will this be a problem? Also, I am hoping to SLI Titan Xs or 980 Tis, will the reduced PCIE lanes on the 4790k/5820k hinder performance?

dont worry about PCI-E lanes, for anything like 2xSLI on those chipps also id go with the x99 because DDR4 isnt that much more expensive and it has its advantages, but DDR3 and z97 is still a good option!

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dont worry about PCI-E lanes, for anything like 2xSLI on those chipps also id go with the x99 because DDR4 isnt that much more expensive and it has its advantages, but DDR3 and z97 is still a good option!

On the very,very odd chance I did 3 way SLI with a 5820k, would performance be decreased since it is only x8/x8/x8? Thanks

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On the very,very odd chance I did 3 way SLI with a 5820k, would performance be decreased since it is only x8/x8/x8? Thanks

nope not really, also i think linus has a good video on this that someone will probably post because i cant find it right now

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Isn't the only difference between the 5820k and the 5930k the number PCIe lanes? The 5960X has a step up in the number of cores, and is going to be the best that's not a Xeon, if you have the money to throw at it.

For gaming it destroys Xeons. For rendering it can lag behind a bit but honestly you pay a premium with xeons most of the time for the ecc compatibility. You need 10 or 12 cores in a xeon for it to beat the 5960x due to the sheer difference in speed.

 

To the OP if you were considering getting a 5960x then maybe you should consider a 4790k on a Z97 instead and buy a second setup dedicated to streaming I know that makes things more complicated but it does have its advantages.

 

First off its cheaper. Second you have a better quality stream. You can pick up a cheap i3 or even an AMD APU to be honest and ensures that no matter how taxed your gaming rig is it doesn't interfere with the stream quality. Third unless you need to render and edit massive quantities of video on a daily basis you probably wont notice that big of a difference in editing and rendering.

 

As far a SLI goes you don't really have to worry about that. Going past 2 cards isn't recommended generally and 16 lanes is plenty to run them. Even the king of cards a fully enabled Titan X doesn't saturate 8 lanes. When you have 2 sli cards the lanes are switched to 8 lanes each when using a 4790k and this wont bottleneck anything.

 

If you are on a budget the best single solution is a 5820k. If you have tons of money or someone else is paying the 5960x does have noticeable advantages.

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